Letter, Diaries

An exchange of letters on prayer between British diplomat Mark Allen and Carmelite nun Ruth Burrows. ‘I had to read some books, looking for help. Some set out to teach how to pray. I was very interes …

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Sin – I send f …

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But all throug …

This moving and unusual story of a British engineer who becomes caught up in the horrifying events of the First World War vividly illuminates life – and death – on the Mesopotamian Front. At the outb …

The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over the 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tenn …

Two Civil Wars is both an edition of an unusual Civil War–era double journal and a narrative about the two writers who composed its contents. The initial journal entries were written by thirteen-yea …

In the four decades between 1920 and 1960, William Deacon, Canada’s first full-time literary journalist, devoted his career to the twin goals of fostering a Canadian readership for Canadian writers a …

The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters – which lay untouched for almost ninety years – allows a unique glim …

In Good Company is a graphic account by the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders, of his service in the First World War. Several times wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 with the 2nd Battalion a …